Introduction
The Khadi & Village Industries Schemes are the backbone of the Rural India's Economy. Khadi was evolved as a concept during India's struggle for freedom against the colonial British Raj. This signified concept of Swadeshi, the popular slogan of the freedom struggle in the early 20th Century, and in concrete term was an assertion of Indian capability to manufacture their own cloth, in contrast to the imported fabric coming from Manchester and Lancashire that had initially provided incentives to the British Thrust in India in the aftermath of industrial revolution. Naturally in the pre independence era, the scheme was implemented by the NGOs.